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2015-11-18 Europe

EU Backs France’s ‘Mutual Defense’ Request

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Posted by Pappy 2015-11-18 09:31|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
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#1 EU Backs France’s ‘Mutual Defense’ Request - That America Save Us Again.

Meanwhile we'll allocate our monies to more socialist programs rather than defense.

FIFY

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-18 12:51|| 2015-11-18 12:51|| Front Page Top

#2 EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called the French decision to activate the mutual-defense clause “first of all, a political act, a political message.”

Nailed it in one. It's also a pretty good smack at Germany, and perhaps just as significantly, a very pointed signal that Hollande is placing some mileage between Paris and the Washington.

Posted by Pappy 2015-11-18 13:53|| 2015-11-18 13:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Won't it be a bit awkward without also removing Turkey?

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-11-18 16:08|| 2015-11-18 16:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Ditto US = POTUS Obama???

FEar NOTTETH, MARIANNE [Nostradamus = France = Guam = "Deepest Part of the West"], POTUS OBAMA'S LONE USN DESTROYER + TWO B-52'S ARE COMING!

To stop the ISIS in France-EU like it stopped China's island reclamations in the SCS [not].!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-11-18 22:18|| 2015-11-18 22:18|| Front Page Top

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